The Photograph Pile
A young girl walking home from school found a small pile of Polaroid photos lying in the gutter. There were twenty in all, neatly wrapped in a rubber band. She picked them up, and as she walked she started to browse. The first photo was that of a ghostly white man on a black background, standing just far enough away from the camera that she couldn’t make out his features. The girl slid the photo to the back of the stack and looked at the next one. The photo was of the same man now standing a bit closer. The girl flipped through the next several photos quickly. With each one the man in the picture came a bit closer and his features were a bit clearer. Turning the last corner to her house, the girl noticed that the man in the photos seems to be looking at her even when she moved the stack from side to side. It frightened her, but she kept flipping them over, one by one. By the nineteenth picture, the man was so close his face completely filled the frame. His expression was the most horrifying the girl had ever seen. Walking up the driveway, she turned to the last photo. This time, instead of an image, there were two words: “Close enough.” Hearing a scream, the girl’s brother rushed to the door and opened it. All he saw was a pile of photographs lying on the doorstep. The top one looked like an extremely pale version of his sister, but she was standing too far back for him to be sure.
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Credited to Peter L.
Posted in Murders & Deaths
October 5th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Wow… that was pretty good. I was kinda spooked
October 5th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Oh… and WHO WAS MAN IN PHOTO?
October 5th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Pretty good.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Pretty good! I liked it. The wrap had just the right amount of vagueness, but also the right amount of knowing what’s coming.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I liked that.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:34 am
so what happens to the guy when he gets the girl? is he free? dont look like it. what does he get from it?
evil pictures…evil pictures…
October 5th, 2008 at 11:02 am
The story is really good. But that girl is really, really, really fucking stupid.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:06 am
WHO WAS CLOSE ENOUGH?
October 5th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Predictable. Reminds me of that story about the statue moving closer and closer.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Wow. That was pretty good, but I agree with DoodleBunny, it did kind of sound like the Statue story.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
God, she deserves it… it took her like fifteen minutes to look at twenty pictures.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
This one was good.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Now THAT’S tasty pasta!
October 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Nice the idea of haunted photo frames is good indeed.I enjoyed this pasta and I would like to hear more from this author.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Ooooh. It wasn’t particularly scary, but I definitely felt a shiver.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I think the story would be better without the last sentence.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
oooo i like this one i will never pick up a pile of pictures i find on the ground again!
October 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
oops that last coment wasnt blackfox it was me
October 5th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
BURN THE PICTURES!
October 5th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Photoman, didn’t I tell you to stop this?
YOU’RE STEALING MY CUSTOMERS DAMNIT!
October 5th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hello.
A fine little tale.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
oooooooh
i rather liked that
also, why do people insist on picking up things that don’t belong to them? D=
October 5th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
also @ cyarm
the man in the photo was most likely the person that died before the girl.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
BUT WHO WAS BROTHER?
And I liked this one
October 5th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Huh. Not bad.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
eh. pretty good. =]
Most pastas these days aren’t… =____=;;
October 5th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Look at these photographs.
Everytime I do it makes me laugh.
I mean die *cough*
October 5th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Look at these photographs.
Everytime I do it makes me laugh.
I mean die *cough*
October 5th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
if the man was looking at the shutter while the pictures were taken, then no shit it would look like he was looking at her. silly xD
October 5th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
I saw Murders and Deaths and was hoping the girl had her entrails graphically torn out.
Oh well.
I mean, you don’t really KNOW she was murdered; maybe she was sucked into the photos or something.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I wonder if his sister was hot
October 5th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Noo who was photo?????
October 5th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
WHO WAS BROTHER?
… Nice pasta. C;
October 5th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
YOU WANNAH DO IT IN MAH BUTT?
IN MAH BUTT?
YOU WANNAH DO IT IN MAH BUTT?
LETS DOOH IT IN TEH BUTT!
October 5th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
WHO WAS CAMERA?
October 5th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
But WHO WAS PHOTOGRAPHER??!!
WHO WAS BROTHER??!!
WHO WAS GIRL??!!
WHO WAS PILE??!!
Okay, I think I got them all.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
It was a good idea, but the writing style seemed a bit bland, which took too much away from the creepiness. The sentence that bothered me the most was “His expression was the most horrifying the girl had ever seen.” Well, too bad for the girl, then. But it doesn’t provide a clear enough image for the reader. What kind of expression WAS it, exactly?
October 5th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Ohhhhhhh!!!! I get it! It’s just like that “Make you 2D thing! I liked this one.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
extremely predictable
October 5th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Creepy, but it reminds me a little much like the one with the cute girl in the picture holding up a finger for every person she’s killed.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:25 am
It’s a trap!
October 6th, 2008 at 1:30 am
WHO WAS BROTHER?
October 6th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Oh wow that was pretty good, I thought i knew how it was going to end but noooooooo.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Wooo.. Looks like Candlejack found a new hobb-
October 6th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Owned!:D
October 6th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Actually pretty good
October 6th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
What if she shuffled the pictures and they weren’t in order?
October 6th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
i ahve a question,how come everytime someone mentions …well…Mr.C as we shall call him,there sentence never finishes,but they still manage to send the comment???????
October 6th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
It’s magic Mr.C submits the coment for them hes polite you know
October 6th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
MWUAHAHA.Every time some one is stupid enough to come to the last photo he takes his place and so on and so on.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
What If someone else found the pictures, and saw that the girl was hot, so he decided to get off to them?
October 7th, 2008 at 5:04 am
damn. when i originally left my WHO WAS BROTHER?, there were only 2 comments. i read it now and theres like 4 who was brother?’s before me.
i apologize.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Weegee photographs.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
this is a blend of the statueone and the girl in the picture one but it was good
October 7th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
But WHO WAS RUBBER BAND?
October 8th, 2008 at 12:02 am
I don’t think the man was evil at all. He was just the picture’s last victim.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:42 am
What happens if you skip to the last picture instead of browsing through each one?
October 8th, 2008 at 2:47 am
This was far too predictable. It was obvious what was going to happen from the description of the first photo.
Although WHO WAS DRIVEWAY?!
October 8th, 2008 at 9:03 am
koaskaksa way too much time to get across 20 pictures !
October 9th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Syrange - I know, it did remind me of the little girl with the two fingers, then the three…
But that’s probably why I liked this one!
YAY!
Good pasta!
October 14th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I love this game. I play it every once in a while, and it’s just a little something that I do when I have a few minutes everyday.
I thought I would share it with you guys.
http://www.torncity.com/register.php?XID=939886
Basically you go around doing crimes and training at the gym.
Trust me, it may seem pointless and stupid at first, but it’s actually a lot of fun.
You can buy houses, buy and sell on the stock market once you play long enough, invest in the bank, buy cars and race them, or even kidnap the major haha.
Anyone heard of Torn City before?
October 25th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Q: What’s another name for Africa?
A: Blackistan
October 27th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
LOL murdering photographs
November 1st, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Fuck. I thought I had a good program going there.
You got me. I was photo.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
@ pastamuncher: I thought the EXACT same thing ^_^
November 13th, 2008 at 2:44 am
lolz.
Seems Candlejack found another way of killing peopl-